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OK! I love the most about the snow in the Minshan Mountains, and the three armies will be full of their faces after the three armies!" Zhao Gang's eyes flashed, and the sorrow just now disappeared. In his imagination, he could even see the tragic situation of the Indian army's retreat being cut off, unable to look at each other at the beginning and end, and being defeated by the Chinese army in one fell swoop. In fact, this tactic was used in the previous raid of the US Pacific Fleet. The Chinese special-mixed fleet took a big turn and then took the risk of approaching the US Pacific Fleet from the southern end, directly defeating the American strategic core with one blow.

Sometimes, the best way to attack the enemy is to defeat the strongest strength the enemy relies on. In this Sino-British-Indian war, what Britain and India rely on was not the troops with outstanding combat effectiveness, but the unbreakable snow-capped chains of snowy mountains. As long as you start from the strongest point, directly cross the snowy mountains on the southwest line, and directly break the Indian army's psychological barrier. This impact is far greater than the huge force that will be eliminated by more than 100,000 Indian soldiers.

"What's so happy?" Xiao Xiaoyan's voice came from outside the door. When the sound came, Xiao Xiaoyan walked in wearing a goose yellow dress. Seeing this, the staff walked out one after another, leaving only two people in the study.

"Little Swallow, you don't know that our Eighth Army is crossing mountains and ridges, preparing to go straight to the Indian army's nest."

Xiao Xiaoyan's expression became serious, and she looked at a small bright red flag on the map and said quietly: "Well, I know that the Eighth Route Army is all good."

After five days of hard trek, General Qin Baochuan finally stepped on the snowy mountain under his feet. Looking at the winding team behind him, he felt a sense of pride. This feat may only be comparable to Hannibal's crossing the Alps. As a bad student who often failed in history, he naturally could not imagine the details of Hannibal's story. After crossing the Alps, 90,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry

The Hannibal land army formed with dozens of battle elephants was only 20,000 infantry, more than 6,000 horseless cavalry and a battle elephant.

Of course, even if General Qin Baochuan knew this result, he could not change his ideas. Qin Baochuan's idol was the founding emperor Zhao Gang, who was brave and bold but did not follow the rules. In the end, this influence created a more terrifying general. As long as there was one percent chance, he would put in 100% effort. Climbing the snow mountain was not the first time this general performed wildly, and of course it was unlikely that it would be the last time.

After climbing the snow-capped mountains, the vast grasslands in front of the Eighth Army were actually plateau wetlands, which were mud swamps. There are many reasons for its formation, mainly because a large river formed by the melting of snow-capped mountains played an important role. The river channel was tortuous and twisted. The Fork River was erect, with low terrain, and the water flow was silted to form a swamp. After years of age, the aquatic plants were mixed, and the tangled and tangled, covering the water.

The vegetation growing in the swamp is mainly hidden in shui grass, urla moss grass, sea leeks, etc., forming meadows. Under the meadow, the water is silted and silted. It is muddy, with no knees in shallow areas and no tops in deep areas. From a distance, it looks like a gray-green ocean, no hills, no trees, and birds and beasts are extinct. People and villages are barren, no villages, no roads, east, south, and north, infinite. People and mules and horses walk on the grass, and they must step on the roots of the grass and move along the meadows. If they accidentally fall into the mud and no one will save them, they will sink deeper and deeper, and even be swallowed up by the desolation. The climate in the grass area is harsh, and the sky and fog are unpredictable.

This river is called Liusha River. In Journey to the West, it is likened to be a terrible river with feathers that cannot float. Even people like Tang Sanzang could not pass through. In the end, they could only use nine skulls of the previous life to make a ferry to cross Liusha River safely. Journey to the West is a mythical story, but it also tells the danger of Liusha River, and it will be a life-and-death life! Can the Eighth Army successfully pass this terrible Liusha River?

This wasteland means no supply. Maybe the location is notified by telegrams and then sending a large number of planes can solve this problem. Moreover, even if the Indian army learned the location of the Eighth Army, it would be difficult to stop the Eighth Army, which had lost more than half of the troops. As a famous landlord force in China, its combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the Sans. However, after careful consideration, Qin Baochuan decided to silently turn on the radio, only accept radio waves, and not send a message to avoid exposing the target. There was no such word failure in Qin Baochuan's mind.

The difficulty of the Eighth Army passing through the grassland is difficult for future generations to feel, first of all, the difficulty of walking. The vast grassland is endless, and there is a quagmire of water, grass, swamps and quagmire, and there is no road at all. People and horses must walk on the meadow, jumping from one meadow to another. Or lean on a stick to explore the depth, and a few people support them. In this way, you will be exhausted at the end of the day. There are three fears when you pass through the grassland: one is afraid of not stepping on the meadow and falling into the mud. The mud is generally very deep. If you struggle hard, you will sink deeper and deeper, and you will be swallowed by the sludge without any time to rescue. The Eighth Army of that year was often a

After entering, another person reached out to pull it. If he tried too hard, he would be trapped. Only after he had experience knowing that he had to move his body slowly to get up, or he would wrap his legband around the waist of the soldier to pull it up. The mud and water were not only undesirable, but also soaked in the broken legs and legs, and it would also be red, swollen and even ulcerated, which would be difficult to heal at once. Second, he was afraid of rain.

The meadow is difficult to walk. It rains all over the world, and the feet are softer and slipperier. If you are not careful, you will fall and fall into the mud. Sanyan crosses the river. There are many rivers on the grass. Some are shallower than a little, while others are wide and hard, and it is even more difficult to encounter rain. They are weak, and they are frozen and hungry, and they cannot resist the stimulation of the cold river water. Almost every time they cross a river, even a small river that is one meter deep, soldiers fall down. Huang Kecheng said in his memoirs: Once, the troops were flowing across the river. The sudden rainstorm fell. The river water surged and the rapids rolled. Many people in the river were washed away by the flood. In this way, countless soldiers of the Eighth Army had corpses on the grass.

Since external supplies were cut off, then back to reality, Qin Baochuan found that his army only had enough supplies to eat for nine days, that is, each soldier had only four days of food for five days after the snow mountain removal. Although the wasteland had begun to thaw and some tender green grass was also stubbornly emerging, these greens could only bring good mood and not fill their stomachs. Although some small fish could be seen in some puddles, these fish were not enough for more than 30,000 soldiers to fill their teeth.

If Qin Bao had not done his homework before he put it in, the Eighth Army might have been in this vast prairie. Before leaving, Qin Baochuan ordered the logistics department to provide cowhide coats, cowhide belts, and cowhide boots, saying that it was to defend against the cold wind, and it finally played a role now. But what Qin Bao Ship did not expect was that although cowhide was indeed edible, cowhide after nitration was not the case.

"It smells so good!" Dozens of soldiers looked at a big pot with their eyes. The pot was cut into small pieces of cowhide. After an hour of gurgling, a little smell came out, which was very pungent and sour. A soldier couldn't wait to pick up a piece of cowhide and chew it hard. The cowhide made a squeaking sound in his mouth, without surrendering at all. The soldiers around them picked up a piece of cowhide with their faces and chewed them with a thick neck. If they didn't look at the blue veins on their faces, others might still think that they were eating some delicacies!

This incident caused great harm to the Eighth Army. After that, whenever I heard about cowhide, every veteran of the Eighth Army would look very serious, have a good temper and turn the topic around; if I have a bad temper, I just curse my mother. "That Qin Baochuan bastard, who deceived us to eat this back then, his throat widened, and he was suffering from an old nose."

With a leather jacket, the Eighth Army lasted for another three days, and finally the entire army had no food. The second problem came to the difficulty of food. In order to bring more food, the fast biscuits prepared by the army were water without water. It was very uncomfortable to eat dry and thirsty. After a rain, the compressed biscuits were wet and became lumps. Then, with boiling water, it became a thin batter and without hunger. If you eat sticky lumps, it was difficult to swallow.

I spent three more days on cowhide, but the grassland only had more than half of it. What should I do if the remaining distance was left? After the food was cut off, the front troops could only rely on eating wild vegetables, grass roots, and tree bark to satisfy my hunger. Some wild vegetables were poisonous, and if I ate them, they would vomit and diarrhea, and if I ate them, they would die of poisoning. This requires learning to distinguish what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten. At some times, I was very hungry, and even wild vegetables that knew were poisonous, I ate them together. As for life and death, I would leave them to God.
Chapter completed!